Archives for London invites you to the next in its series of seminars,
to be held on 7 February 2008 in Room SB4, University College London, 188 
Tottenham Court Road, London WC1. 

ORAL HISTORY IN PRACTICE
 
Archives for London are delighted to welcome Alan Dein and Annette Day.  

Alan Dein is an oral historian and BBC broadcaster. For over twenty years, 
Alan has been wielding a microphone and recording people’s memories for 
archives, galleries and museums. The project officer of Lives in Steel for 
the British Library National Life Story Collection, he co-founded the oral 
history collection at the Jewish Museum. He has been running the King’s 
Cross Voices oral history project. This HLF-funded project has just closed 
following a four-year journey recording living memories of an area 
undergoing major transformation and regeneration. Over 300 digitally 
recorded interviews and transcripts, with photographs and scanned 
ephemera, collected by the Kings’ Cross Voices team will soon be 
accessible via the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre website. 

See www.kingscrossvoices.org.uk for more information.

Annette Day is from the Oral History Society, will look at some of the key 
issues and considerations involved in setting up and running a community-
based oral history project, using the Refugee Communities History Project 
as a case study. This presentation will reflect upon the value of oral 
history, share insights about running an oral history project - from 
identifying interviewees and conducting interviews to documentation, 
archiving and dissemination, and present this new and unique oral history 
collection.  

Further information about the project can be found at 
www.refugeestories.org and www.museumoflondon.org.uk/belonging

For practitioners, this seminar provides an insight into working with 
community groups, running and organising oral history projects, and best 
practice in recording and preserving digital records. For users, this 
seminar aims to demonstrate the range of material recorded and collected, 
how community groups participated, how the results were disseminated among 
locals and visitors to the area.

Doors will open at 5.30pm and the talk will start at 6pm. The seminar is 
an open forum and following the talk attendees are welcome to ask 
questions, exchange news, and discuss matters of interest.  

We regret that refreshments cannot be provided at this month’s venue.

Please let Nicola Avery know if you are coming -  e-mail her on: 
[log in to unmask] or telephone 020 7332 3816.

If you book a place but are unable to attend on the night please let 
Nicola know as soon as possible.  Failure to do so may deprive someone 
else of a place.

Venue:  Room SB4, University College London, 188 Tottenham Court Road, 
London WC1

Directions to this venue: 188 Tottenham Court Road is located near the 
junction with Torrington Place, a few minutes walk north from Goodge 
Street tube station, on the opposite side of the road from the station 
exit. The entrance to the building is located between Barclays Bank (on 
the corner of Torrington Place and Tottenham Court Rd) and Café Nero. It 
forms part of University College London’s New Exam Halls and Room SB 4 is 
located in the sub-basement. Please take the stairs to the sub-basement 
(or lift to basement and then the stairs to the sub-basement). For room 
SB4 turn LEFT.  

NEXT MONTH’S SEMINAR:

6 March 2008
"Reviewing Archive Services in London"
Venue: University College London
Nick Kingsley, TNA

Jeff Gerhardt
Communications Committee
Archives for London Ltd
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London
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